Houstonian 1968 - Campus Life. 1968. Special Collections, University of Houston Libraries. University of Houston Digital Library. Web. December 9, 2016. http://digital.lib.uh.edu/collection/yearb/item/1726/show/1389.

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A spirit explosion rocks the dome after
UH defeats UCLA and takes over the nation's number one team spot. Cheerleaders
Chuck Gibbs and John Maisel are overwhelmed by the Cougars' victory, left.
Bigger than the "greatest show on earth,"
a 55,000 plus crowd jams the dome for
the basketball tilt, below. Left, amidst the
pandemonium one fan goes unnoticed just
Ions enoush to grab a souvenir.
Basketball Rips I Dome Apart; Spirit Hits New High
This coed, along with other eager, reaching fans, takes part in a pre-game souvenir
ritual for basketballs thrown into the stands
by the cheerleaders, right.
The Cougar Cagers' number two
national ranking brought on an even
bigger spirit surge as students staged
a "sleep-in" in front of the Athletic
Department for tickets to the UCLA-
UH "game of the century."
Fifty-five thousand cheering, jeering fans crammed the Astrodome to
watch Big Red displace a California
great. Then, as Elvin Hayes coolly
dropped in the winning points the cry,
"we're number one," grew to deafening heights and fans poured onto the
court. It was official . . . Cougars—
best!
The Coogs played out the rest of
the season, dumping teams as they
went. Finally, the NCAA semi-finals
brought up the "rematch of the century" in Los Angeles. Avid supporters
begged, pleaded and paid more than
double the price for a ticket as student
spirit grew to a climatic peak.
For the entire year campus spirit
and pride had grown to enormous
proportions, ridding the air of apathy.
UH boasted championship baseball,
basketball, football and golf teams.
In LA, one dream died as the
mighty Coogs bowed humbly to
UCLA. But in victory and defeat, an
outstanding athletic program amid
tremendous and unprecedented school
spirit made 1967-68 truly the Year
of the Cougars.
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